Crystallographic and electronic contribution to the apparent step height in nanometer-thin Pb(111) films grown on Cu(111)

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Calleja, Fabian ^a,d   Vázquez De Parga, Amadeo L ^a,b,c   Anglada, Eduardo ^a   Hinarejos, Juan José ^a   Miranda, Rodolfo ^a,b,c   Yndurain, Felix ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO NICOLÁS CABRERA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTIONS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; INTERLAYER DISTANCE; NUMBER OF LAYERS; QUANTUM SIZE EFFECTS; THERMAL ROUGHENING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) ISLANDS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 72049123765     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/12/123003     Document Type: Article

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